ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump will not invoke executive privilege to withhold information from special counsel Robert Mueller’s confidential report and supports the public release of the investigation’s findings, the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee said Wednesday [3-27-19]. Multiple sources told CNN earlier this month that White House lawyers expected to have an opportunity to review whatever version of Mueller’s report Attorney General William Barr submits to Congress before it reaches lawmakers and the public. The attorneys wanted the White House to have an opportunity to claim executive privilege over information drawn from documents and interviews with White House officials, the sources said. But Sen. Lindsey Graham told CNN’s Kate Bolduan Wednesday he doubts the White House will see the Mueller report before it’s made public…The Justice Department announced Friday that the special counsel’s office has wrapped up its probe into Russian election interference and Mueller submitted a confidential report to Barr. Summarizing Mueller’s findings, Barr wrote to Congress that the investigation did not find any collusion between Trump campaign and Russia. Mueller’s report also did not conclude that Trump committed a crime, but it “also does not exonerate him” of obstruction of justice, Barr wrote, quoting from the special counsel report.”
–Veronica Stracqualursi, “Graham says Trump won’t invoke executive privilege for Mueller report,” CNN Politics, CNN.com, March 27, 2019 1:44 pm